. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 2X8 THE STUDY OF Family Megalopygid^e (Me-gal-o-pyg'i-dae). TJie Flannel-mot J IS, Sometimes there is attracted to our evening lamp a whitish moth, whose wings, being densely clothed with long curly hairs, resemble bits of flannel; this is the Crinkled Flannel-moth, Megalopyge cris- pata (Me-gal-o-py'ge cris-pa'ta). It is cream-colored, with the fore wings marked with wavy lines of crinkled black and brownish hairs. The male is represented by Fig- ure 246; the female is larger, Fig. lifi.—Megalopygecrispata. expanding One and three fifths
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 2X8 THE STUDY OF Family Megalopygid^e (Me-gal-o-pyg'i-dae). TJie Flannel-mot J IS, Sometimes there is attracted to our evening lamp a whitish moth, whose wings, being densely clothed with long curly hairs, resemble bits of flannel; this is the Crinkled Flannel-moth, Megalopyge cris- pata (Me-gal-o-py'ge cris-pa'ta). It is cream-colored, with the fore wings marked with wavy lines of crinkled black and brownish hairs. The male is represented by Fig- ure 246; the female is larger, Fig. lifi.—Megalopygecrispata. expanding One and three fifths inches. In the female the antennae are very narrowly pecti- nate. The larva is said to feed on oak, elm, apple, and rasp- berry. In the Southern States there occur three other species of this family. These moths are easily distin- guished by the structure of their wings (Fig. 247). There are three anal veins in both fore and hind wings ; but in the fore wings the second and third anal veins (veins IX and XI) are partially nil grown together. The basal part of vein V is more or less distinctly preserved, and divides the discal cell into two nearly equal parts. Veins II and III of the hind wings are grown to- gether nearly to the end of the discal Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. joint author. Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Pub. Co.
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